Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Astoria's new crime fighting program

Astoria is armed with dozens of newly trained block-watch experts ready to rein in the neighborhood's 5 percent uptick in major crime.

The neighborhood watch — the first of its kind in Astoria in more than 25 years — is set to become "extra eyes and ears for police officers," officials said.

It's the brainchild of Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., who posted the idea on Facebook and other sites in November and organized the first training session last week.

Last week, volunteers were given block-watcher IDs, trained how to detect suspicious behavior and activity — and instructed how to give useful specifics when they call 311 or 911. Local officials said they hope the program will soon expand beyond 30 volunteers.

Major crime in the 114th Precinct is up about 5 percent this year through May 20, according to NYPD statistics.

28 comments:

Joe
said...

A fellow named Kerzner and "Dutchboy" Neumann some Citizens band radio people put something like this together in Ridgewood on back in 1975.I remember this because I was a local Channel 13 base at the time. I helped install some of radios and antennas on the cars.

The cops and boss hog at the 104 pct simply ignored them despite the hot air and support they gave at meetings. One late afternoon 2 patrol guys simply looked at a dust head around the Carbines (Dekalb & Onderdonk at the time) Next thing you know he flips out and 2 more paranoid dust heads (angel dust/PCP addicts) come darting out from inside the bleachers, pull the driver out and proceeded to flip the car over with there bare hands.

Some of these patrol members can be real knucklehead duh-di-duhs at large with no training and no weapons to defend themselves. Wherever a civilian patrol is needed it a sure bet the cops aren't gonna be around whenever the shit hits the fan.

Civilian Patrols don't work IMO. All the bad guys know civilian's in NYC are un-armed and easy targets to have "some fun" with.The Governor needs to allow lawful citizens to have guns and put the teeth back into New York's castle doctrine laws. Restoring in all the "teeth" his dad took out WILL cut violent crime, home invasions and death of innocent people. New York's current castle doctrine law is totally useless crooks dream. It requires the victim of attack or home invasion to "retreat first" even if they are under attack in there own home, car, hallway or elevator.Use of deadly force against non deadly force is also illegal. ---It makes no sense, its insane.

I suppose if it will work anywhere it will work in Astoria, but only because of the Vallone family backing. However the cops will never cooperate under any circumstances and the blockwatchers will be putting themselve in harms way in more ways than one. Good luck though!

The only way to clean up the 114 by way of the NYPD is to hire back all the great cops and bosses who worked there prior to the Bloomberg /Kelly reign of terror, and to get rid of all the disastrous policies that were put in place inthe last ten years by this current regime. The 114 and the NYPD are both a sad shadow of what they used to be. Kelly wanted a mindless robot patrol drone force, and he certainly got it.

Bullshit!Id rather put an arrow through the dog and let the crooks in.Nothing worse in then an annoying nasty barking dog or "dogs" next door 24-7.

To Anonymous anti 2nd amendment pinko : For your information arming citizens works. For example up in Northern Michigan (Ted Nugent country) everybody has guns & pistols including every kid over 7+ year's of age. They are trained to shoot, use and respect firearms. There is little crime, not one home invasion to date and nobody’s gotten accidentally shot.All this dispite 1 police officer for every 200 square milesThe crooks, skels, bandiito Mestizo's and Detroit gangs are scaired to death to go up there. When the scumbags know what will happen to them they dont come around.

Annoying Dogs & bright lights going all night long is crap quality of life and not the answer. Train and arm every clean citizen who wishes to use his or her 2nd amendment right (our democrats keep shiiting on) and the scumbags will go someplace else to commit crime. Right now NYCs laws are a magnet for scumbags from other states and countrys. Its as if to shout out "Come and get it crooks easy free pickins"

The cops dont want a GP with firearms because when a citizen takes out a criminal the cops and pols cant just turn there heads and say there was no crime. They would actually have to a show up and do a complicated criminal investigation, possible court dates and that means WORK and expenses for the city.

Dont tell me about insurence rates, Im self employed since age 20 never took a handout. Nice gift in the mail today. My health insurence just went from $600 a month to $1280 a month thanks to Obama and his socialist dems !$15K year for a single male just to pay for this social bullshit robbery.

I dont live in Mattatuck... just own house house I rent out during summer. (I do come out once in a wile for property work I DO ALL MYSELF. I have a room/office in the barn loft) I live in both Ridgewood and Manhasset asshat.

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